Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 17:44:04
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Watson, Joe" <ISJOEWAT AT oklahomacounty DOT org>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:39:47 -0400
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Watson, Joe
<ISJOEWAT AT oklahomacounty DOT org> wrote:
> I think this got side tracked I know now why the status doesn't work on the 
> tape drive but only on the autochanger. However I am trying to trouble shoot 
> the tape drive because I cant get it working with bacula. I run the btape 
> test which errors out and looks like;
>
>        17-Sep 11:25 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:568 Write error at 0:0 on
>        device "Ultrium 4-SCSI" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
>        17-Sep 11:25 btape JobId 0: Error: Error writing final EOF to tape.   
>   This Volume may not be readable. dev.c:1681 ioctl MTWEOF error on       
> "Ultrium 4-SCSI" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
>        btape: btape.c:827 Error writing block to device.
>
> When I run the status on the changer I show that in my case that the 1st slot 
> is empty where a tape was placed and slot 2 the other slot I placed a tape is 
> full and shows the tape barcode number. I can only assume the tape is in the 
> drive.
>

Can you post the output of

mt -f /dev/nst0 status

to get the status of the tape drive.

Also on this mailing list everyone bottom posts. Please try to do that
next time..

John

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